“The Bad Shall Be Cast Away”
The “end of the world” is the destruction of the wicked (Joseph Smith Matthew 1:4), the destruction of those who are not either terrestrial or celestial at the time of Christ’s coming in glory. “The righteous need not fear,” Nephi taught, “for they are those who shall not be confounded. But it is the kingdom of the devil, which shall be built up among the children of men, which kingdom is established among them which are in the flesh- for the time speedily shall come that all churches which are built up to get gain, and all those who are built up to get power over the flesh, and those who are built up to become popular in the eyes of the world; and those who seek the lusts of the flesh and the things of the world, and to do all manner of iniquity; yea, in fine, all those who belong to the kingdom of the devil are they who need fear, and tremble, and quake; they are those who must be brought low in the dust; they are those who must be consumed as stubble” (1 Nephi 22:22-23). In short, “the time speedily cometh that the Lord God shall cause a great division among the people [cf. D&C 63:54), and the wicked will he destroy; and he will spare his people, yea, even if it so be that he must destroy the wicked by fire” (2 Nephi 30:10).
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